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COMPANIES WE KEEP (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008). John Abrams discusses sustainable business.

CREATING WEALTH (New Society Publishers,2011). Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Bernard Lietaer write about growing local economies with local currencies.

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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.

Simple, playful, and eloquent, Doughnut Economics offers game-changing analysis and inspiration for a new generation of economic thinkers.

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.

Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike.

ETHICAL MARKETS (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007). Hazel Henderson and Simran Sethi survey the sustainable business landscape.

Nicole Foss brings us up-to-date on the global economic crisis, and shows us how to prepare for the future before us.

Nicole Foss brings us up-to-date on the global economic crisis, and shows us how to prepare for the future before us.

In Food Full of Life Gill Bacchus concludes that modern scientific methods simply cannot reveal or measure the true life processes that give quality to our food..... she argues that the health not only of our bodies, but also of our consciousness, thinking and emotions, depends on nourishing ourselves wisely, and she gives advice on how we can learn to find and choose food that is 'full of life and light'.

GIVE AND TAKE TELLS THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING STORY OF HOW ONE BIG IDEA COULD TRANSFORM HEALTHCARE BY UNLEASHING OUR GREATEST UNTAPPED RESOURCE OURSELVES.

Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis (Bridget Williams Books 2013). Max Rashbrooke edits insights into the explosion of the rich-poor divide during the last 30 years, its effects on our society, and how it might be reversed.

Local Money (Triarchy Press, 2013). John Rogers explains the practical differences between national and local money - how local currencies work, what they can do that national money can t do, and why they are needed.

MID-COURSE CORRECTION (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000). Ray C. Anderson explains his move toward a sustainable enterprise.

At the heart of the ongoing economic crisis is the fact that governments across the world have given the power to create money to the private corporations that we know as banks. Today, over 97% of all of the money used by people and businesses is created by banks when they make loans. This way of creating money has led to economic instability and a financial crisis. It has produced the highest-ever levels of personal and government debt, made houses unaffordable, and driven the short-termism which is destroying the businesses, and ecosystems, on which we depend. But it doesn t have to be like this. The way money is created can be changed. Modernising Money shows how a UK law implemented in 1844 can be updated and combined with reform proposals from the Great Depression, to provide the UK with a stable monetary and banking system, much lower levels of personal and national debt, and a thriving economy. Detailed, but accessible to non-economists, Modernising Money is written for anybody who wants to know how to create an economy that serves people, businesses, society and the environment.

MONEY AS DEBT II: PROMISES UNLEASHED. Paul Grignon develops the themes of his animated documentary Money As Debt. 2-DISC SET

MONEY: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001). Thomas H. Greco discusses alternative currencies. N.B. This is a USED COPY!

NATURAL CAPITALISM (Little Brown, 1999). Paul Hawken, Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins underline the connections between economics and ecology.

NO MORE THROW-AWAY PEOPLE (Essential Books, 2004). Edgar S. Cahn analyses time banking.

PAYBACK (Anansi Press, 2008). Margaret Atwood discusses debt as the shadow side of wealth.

Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society.

POWERDOWN (New Society Publishers, 2004). Richard Heinberg offers options and actions for a post-carbon world.

Providing Clean Energy and Energy Access through Cooperatives. This is a joint publication of the Cooperatives Unit and the Green Jobs Programme of the International Labour Office.

Rethinking Money (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2013) Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne point out that there is a way, in fact a thousand ways, to stop our current juggernaut towards global self-destruction. There is a system of solutions already in place in localities throughout the world where terrible problems have existed. The changes came about, not through the redistribution of wealth, increased conventional taxation, bond measures or enlightened self-interest from corporate entities, but rather, by people simply rethinking the concept of money. With that restructuring, everything changed.

ROGUE ECONOMICS (Seven Stories Press, 2008). Loretta Napoleoni outlines capitalism's new reality.

As with all the YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE books, this book is intended to be enjoyable to read and easy to use - by everyone. The wealth of information is concisely written to be of benefit to professionals wishing to upgrade their skills; busy people, working to make a difference in their communities and at the grassroots of their societies, and people from different cultures, especially those from the developing world, for whom English may be a 2nd or even 3rd language.

Trevenna, S. (2010). Surfing Tsunamis of Change. Island Moonlight Publishing: USA. A handbook for change agents. The powerful story of a woman's voyage to Hawaii to find her purpose as an 'agent of change' in the era of sustainability.

The Biggest Wake Up Call In History (Foresight International, 2010) Richard A. Slaughter applies what he's learned over some three decades of futures and foresight work.

THE BIOCHAR SOLUTION (New Society Publishers, 2010) Albert Bates analyses carbon farming and climate change with techniques for the production and use of biochar.

THE DEMOCRACY SHAM (Craig Potton Publishing, 2006). Bryan Gould outlines the way globalisation devalues your vote.

THE ECOLOGY OF MONEY (Green Books, 1999). Richard Douthwaite briefs us on where money comes from, where it goes and what it does on its way.

THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS (New Society Publishers, 2007). Mark Anielski investigates alternative measures of wellbeing.

THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION (Chelsea Green, 2009). Thomas H. Greco offers alternatives to our disfunctional money system.

Today's crisis in Europe, the heated debates about austerity versus further fiscal stimuli in the US, the clash between China's authorities and the Obama administration on exchange rates are the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global system which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis lays out the options available to us for reintroducing a modicum of reason into a highly irrational global economic order. An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.

Gansky, Lisa. (2010). The Mesh. Penguin: New York. The mesh is reshaping how we go to market, who we partner with, and how we invite participation and engage new customers....if you embrace the mesh you'll discover how your business can inspire customers

THE MONEY FIX (2009). Alan Rosenblith compares and contrasts community currencies with federal dollars.

THE OIL DEPLETION PROTOCOL (New Society Publishers, 2006). Richard Heinberg describes an accord whereby nations would voluntarily reduce oil production and imports according to a consistent formula.

In this important book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism is actually delivering a fatal blow not only to life, but also to democracy and the market. Among his startling ideas: Capitalism is a pathology that commonly afflicts market economies in the absence of vigilant public oversight. 

Water Whisperers, a feature documentary shot in 10 communities throughout New Zealand as they seek to heal damaged waterways and protect them for the future.

  What Every Environmentalist needs to know about Capitalism: A Citizens Guide to capitalism and the environment. 
"Relentlessly persuasive...indispensable." - Naomi Klein.

Gar Alperovitz ... has produced the most compelling account yet of how we can move beyond the piecemeal, project-by-project transformation of our political economy to truly systemic change. (Juliet Schor)

WHEN MONEY DIES (PublicAffairs, 2010). Adam Fergusson's rereleased classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery.

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